WPBook 1.1.1 Released

(Update 2/10/09 – posted a quick bug fix 1.1.1 version just now – fixed two quick bugs in the facebook resizing code. Note that 1.1.1 may not show up in your autoupdate queue inside WordPress for 24 hours as WordPress doesn’t check every time you load the page)

Also I believe I’ve got the profile.setFBML working – meaning users no longer have to copy default FBML anywhere. At least it works in my two test blogs – let me know if it works for you.

I’ve also included better (I think) documentation, including screenshots of Facebook admin screens, to try to demonstrate the process of setting up an application.

If you’re using WPBook, please visit this page and add your blog in the comments.

Remaining open issues:

Sociable.es Facebook Connect plugin conflicts. You’ll have to update the facebook client provided with the Connect plugin as described here

Custom home pages – if your WordPress blog has a homepage that is not the default list of recent posts, I don’t know if this version will work for you – sorry, it is on my list to address but the theme currently assumes a default home page setup

Javascript/CSS plugin conflicts – if your other plugins use css or javascript to set the height of the body or html elements to 100%, this will interfere with Facebook’s own iframe sizing javascript.

Usually this is a result of putting the wrong info in for the callback url in the facebook settings – but it could be caused by many different things.

With the blank canvas up in Firefox, right-click inside the blank and choose “Frame -> Open Frame in New Tab.” That will tell you what Facebook is trying to use as your callback url, and may let you see what error is being generated.

We are working on adding mini-feed functionality into wpbook. I didn’t know that these two plugins were out there I may have to take a look at them and see if the license allows integration into our plugin.

Hi. I have been trying to get your plugin to work for me without success. I pretty certain I have followed direction properly, but after adding the app to my profile, it never updates with information. The actual app page is propagated with content (http://apps.facebook.com/drugfreecoalition/).

Can you give me any direction? At one point I turned off all plugins to see if there was a conflict there. No help.

@jonathan – looks to me like you’ve got a custom home page going, which continues to be a problem for WpBook.

WPBook assumes that it can find the recent posts file at: <root url of wp install>/wp-content/plugins/wpbook/theme/recent_posts.php

But the root of your install would seem to be:http://faceitpeople.org/site/

But that isn’t your site home page. I’m not sure where the code is going wrong in this assumption, but it does seem to be a consistent problem with the site install root doesn’t match what the home page is.

In short, I’m not sure WPBook is going to work for your configuration in its current version.

WPBook assumes that the site root is the home page – but that isn’t how you have it set up.

Thanks for the heads up Brandon. If the licensing does allow integration, it would be doubly awesome if the minifeed link supplied would be customizable to point it to the http://www.apps.facebook.com page….. url vs the original blog URL.

That way we drive traffic inside Facebook to retain the people who would otherwise be annoyed by being taken out of facebook to read my content. As it stands you do offer the ability to click through on the canvas page to the ORIGINAL blog url should they desire to do so.